It was very surreal for me. I found myself biting my lip throughout discussions.

One of the major emphases in this group has been youth leadership. We allegedly strive to create and leave space for the youth to do the leading.

Yet I find that we adults do most of the talking. When youth talk, they speak deferentially toward adults. It sounds, and feels, like we (adults) often speak with an edge of concern that if we aren’t active and vocal the youth will take off in unreliable and undesirable directions.

I have not found this to be the case, however. The huge majority of the youth in leadership that I’ve worked with have shared a sincere and deep desire to serve God and to work together.

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Agreed, letting go is not easy. One of the biggest issues though is that we don’t move on and keep up with what we are teaching out teens. We want them to grow closer as a group, yet we seperate from others. We want them to be leaders, yet we don’t want to take on some of the harder tasks. We want them to be involved but we don’t want to be involved in anything that is not ours. Oh how we miss the picture sometimes and othertimes we talk during those times just because we finally have an audiance who is willing to listen. Relationship…not Reglion. Nough Said.